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:Paul French is the author of many books on the "old" period in China, including ''The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking'' (2013) [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Badlands/HprQgLF8s2IC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover Sample pages Google Books] and ''Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day'', published 2017 [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Bloody_Saturday_Shanghai_s_Darkest_Day_P/gsEvDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover Sample pages Google Books]. The day was Saturday, August 14, 1937, when the Japanese bombed the city. For a further book by French, see [[Shanghai]].
*[https://archive.org/details/japaneseinformal0000unse/mode/2up ''The Japanese informal empire in China, 1895-1937''] edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H Myers, and Mark R Peattie 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/nanjing1937battl0000harm/mode/2up ''Nanjing 1937 : Battle for a Doomed City''] by Peter Harmsen 2015. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also known as the Rape of Nanjing, December 1937. By the Japanese, against the Chinese. Follows on from the Battle of [[Shanghai]] 1937. The author is a veteran East Asia correspondent.
*[https://archive.org/details/insideasia0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up ''Inside Asia''] by John Gunther 1939. The political situation in the late 1930s. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Chapters on China including
**[https://archive.org/details/insideasia0000unse/page/200/mode/2up Chapter XII "A Song of Soongs"] page 201. Also see the book by Emily Kahn, below.
